July 30, 2014

Top 4 YA Releases: July 29 2014

Many book bloggers were talking about the week of July 29 being a big week in terms of new YA releases but for me it was a pretty small one. There were only two books that I was interested in and I already owned those two in ARC form although I will probably buy them in hardcover.

Five strangers. Countless
adventures. One epic way to get lost.Four teens across
the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into
their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.There's HUDSON, a
small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And
BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way.
ELLIOT believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA
worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.Hudson, Bree,
Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their
lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that
she discovers the most important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right
where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to
get lost along the way.

After a mysterious Sickness
wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly
run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and
Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious
existence among the chaos. But when another tribe member discovers a clue that
may hold the cure to the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road
trip to save humankind.The tribe exchanges
gunfire with enemy gangs, escapes cults and militias, braves the wilds of the
subway and Central Park...and discovers truths they could never have imagined.